The beautiful run turned to a stumble, and like an oncoming hurricane, North Carolina caught the Spartans, blew through them, and left them flattened, so fast, so devastating, you almost expected to see ambulances at halftime.

Brit Emily Blunt won over audiences stateside with her underfed fashionista in The Devil Wears Prada. For her latest role, in Sunshine Cleaning (expanding to more cities Friday), the Golden Globe winner trades designer duds for biohazard gear she must wear to clean up crime scenes a business she starts with her sister (Amy Adams). Blunt, 26, joins a reporter for a spot of tea at hip West Hollywood hotel Palihouse.

Taking a page from Jonathan Swift, modern paleontologists have adopted the term "the Lilliput effect" to mean organisms that survive mass extinctions tend to be much smaller than those that came before. A variety of presentations on the Lilliput effect at the Geological Society of America explored why small is good.

Who would face the seven labors of watching Hercules? As if to make you suffer for its lousy season, NBC is asking you to endure three straight hours of horrid plotting, indifferent direction, hideous costumes, shoddy effects, dull sets, dreary dialogue and terrible performances.

He's been involved in the U.S. launch of PlayStation and managed a videogame production company, but like many techies, Warren Scott Fentress found himself out of work altogether during the dot-com implosion. Now he's back in action with MagneBlocks, and surprise: Though tech-savvy, this is no onscreen game.